The nature of necessity. - Plantinga, Alvin (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1974)
[pt]. 8. Possible but unactual objects : on what there isn't -- 1. Predicative and impredicative singular propositions -- 2. The classical argument fails -- 3. Creatures of fiction-- 4. Names : their function in fiction -- [pt]. 9. God, evil, and the metaphysics of freedom -- 1. The problem -- 2. The free will defense -- 3. The objection -- 4. Which worlds could God have created? -- 5. Counterfactuals -- 6. Leibniz's lapse -- 7. Transworld depravity -- 8. The free will defense triumphant -- 9. God's existence and natural evil -- 10. God's existence and natural evil -- 11. The probabilistic argument from evil -- [pt]. 10. God and necessity -- 1. The Anselmian statement -- 2. The argument restated -- 3. The argument examined -- 4. A mistaken modal version -- 5. The argument without possible objects -- 6. The Hartshorne-Malcolm version -- 7. A victorious modal version -- 8. Final objections and reflections -- Appendix : Quine's objection to quantified modal logic -- 1. The objection initially stated -- 2. Sizeability is not a property -- 3. The objection restated -- 4. The objection examined -- A. The Hintikka response -- B. The Smullyan reply -- 5. Proper terms and Aristotelian essentialism -- 6. Modal logic and essentialism -- 7. Quine's charge and Professor Marcus -- 8. Quine's charge and Professor Parsons -- 9. Essentialism and applied semantics -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Modality (Logic); Essentialism (Philosophy); Necessity (Philosophy); Good and evil; Essentialism (Philosophy); Good and evil; Modality (Logic); Necessity (Philosophy)